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4033 ADIOS

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About Me

May I be the doctor and the medicine And may I be the nurse For all sick beings in the world Until everyone is healed.May a rain of food and drink decend To clear away the pain of thirst and hunger And during the eon of famine MayI myself turn into food and drink.May I become an inexhaustible treasure For those who are poor and destitute; May I turn into all things they could need And may these be placed close beside them.Without any sense of loss I shall give up my body and enjoyments As well as all my virtues of the three times For the sake of benefiting all.By giving up all sorrow is transcended And my mind will realize the sorrowless state. It is best that I now give all to all beings In the same way as I shall at death.Having given this body up For the pleasure of all living beings, By killing, abusing, and beating it May they always do as they please.Although they may play with my body And make it a thing of ridicule, Because I have given it up to them What is the use of holding it dear?Therefore I shall let them do anything to it That does not cause them any harm, And when anyone encounters me May it never be meaningless for him [or her].If in those who encounter me A faithful or an angry thought arises, May that eternally become the source For fulfilling all their wishes.May all who say bad things to me Or cause me any other harm, And those who mock and insult me, Have the fortune to fully awaken.May I be a protector for those without one, A guide for all travelers on the way; May I be a bridge, a boat, and a ship For all who wish to cross (the water).May I be an island for those who seek one And a lamp for those desiring light; May I be a bed for all who wish to rest And a slave for all who want a slave.May I be a wishing jewel, a magic vase, Powerful mantras, and great medicine; May I become a wish fulfilling tree And a cow of plenty for the world.Just like space And all the great elements such as earth, May I always support the life Of all the boundless creatures.And until they pass away from pain May I also be the source of life For all the realms of varied beings That reach unto the ends of space.Just as the previous Lords of Bliss Concieved the enlightenment spirit, And just as they successively lived By the Bodhisattva practices,Likewise for the sake of all that lives Do I concieve the spirit of enlightenment, And likewise shall I too Successively follow the practices.In order to further increase it from now on, The intelligent who have vividly taken The spirit of enlightenment in this way Should extol it in the following manner:"Today my life has borne fruit; Having well obtained this human existence, I've been born in the family of Buddha And now am one of Buddha's children.Thus whatever actions I do from now on Must be in accord with the family tradition. Never shall I do anything to disgrace This holy, faultless family!Just like a blind man Discovering a jewel in a heap of trash, Likewise by some coincidence I have found the enlightenment spirit within meIt is the supreme elixir That overcomes the lord of death; It is the inexhaustible treasure That eliminates all poverty of the world.It is the supreme medicine That cures the world's disease. It is the evergreen tree that shelters all beings Wandering tired on the roads of life.It is the universal bridge That frees beings from wretched lives, It is the rising moon of the mind that dispels the torment of addictions.It is the great sun that burns away the misty ignorance of the world; It is the quintessential butter From the churning milk of the Dharma.For all guests travelling the path of life Who wish to experience the true happiness, This spirit will satisfy them with joy And exhalt them in the highest bliss.Today in the presence of all the saviors I invite the world to be my guests At the feast of the temporal and ultimate bliss. May gods, titans, and all be joyful!"-----------Shantideva's Bodhisattva Vow

My Interests

"My friends, my habits, my family; they mean so much to me"--Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse
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I'd like to meet:

Art Alexakis. Bret Hart. Martin Scorsese. Bono. Michael Crichton. Jon Stewart. Bill Mahr. Wynton Marsalis. Conan O'Brian. J.K. Rowling. Isaac Brock. Thom Yorke. Many many more alive people. Dead people include Kurt Cobain, Harry Houdini, Andy Kaufman, Jesus, Pope John Paul II, Syd Barret, Alan Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Jeff Buckley and tons more as well.

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Music:

Grunge, Punk, some metal, no fucking hair/80s metal, most rock-not pop--groups include: Everclear, Nirvana, STP, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden, Pixies, Toadies, The Cult, Sonic Youth, Sex Pistols, Smashing Pumpkins, Ramones, New York Dolls, White Stripes, Wilco, Weezer, System of a Down, RATM, RHCP, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, The Cure, R.E.M., U2, Beatles, Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Jeff Buckley, Dwight Yokam, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, The Kemicks, Sublime, , Brian Wilson (w/o the rest of the beach boys), Beastie Boys, The Clash, Dead Kennedys, early Incubus (before they sold out w/that Morning View shit), earlier Green Day, James Taylor, Jimi, Johny Cash, Neil Young, Pennywise, The Smiths, Tool, Violent Femmes, Weird Al, Mushroom Ann, a band whose members are friends of mine(myspace.com/mushroomann)-i fucking love their stuff and they better fucking be more proactive in terms of trying to get signed...fuckers---also George Frye (a member of the Kemicks and recording solo as "A Silver Crow")--his is the song playing right now (both his music spaces are in my top friends).. Dissent TV: Tony with Isaac and Johnny from Modest Mouse on ShredOrDie.com ..

Movies:

My Favorite directors are: Martin Scorsese, Mel Brooks, Tim Burton, Steven Speilberg, John Sayles, The Cohen Brothers, Ed Zwick, Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson, Ang Lee, Stanley Kubrick, FFC, The Wachowski Brothers, Trey Parker, Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, Cameron Crowe, Wes Anderson, James Cameron, Robert Rodreguiz, Quinten Tarantino, George Lucas (before he ruined his series), Ron Howard, Michael Moore, and shitloads more as well

Television:

Battlestar Galactica (the new one on Sci-Fi), South Park, Scrubs, Frasier, Seinfeld, M.A.S.H., Simpsons, Young Ones, Kids in the Hall, first 5 years of SNL and other odds and ends of it, Ben Stiller Show, In Living Color, Monty Python's Flying Circus (best sketch comedy ever), Mad T.V. has gotten to be funny while SNL has gone down hill, Daily Show, Conan, Dave, sometimes Jay, Lou Dobbs, WWE (I know, I know), I'm really loving Studio Sixty, Arrested Development, CYE, most sports, TLC-Discovery-History Channels, Chappelle Show, and a decent amount more--I don't watch it that much

Books:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintnence by Robert Pirsig, The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo, Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, The Once and Future King by T.H. White, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, To Kill a Mockingbird (one of my all time favorites) by Harper Lee, Jurrassic Park by Michael Crichton, Beowulf by unknown, The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein, Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner and tons more. Poets that I love include Alan Ginsberg, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Bukowski, Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, John Swift and tons upon tons upon tons--I like to write really shitty poetry as well-www.webspawner.com/users/bentalarico/index.html

Heroes:

Art Alexakis. Pope John Paul II. Bret Hart. Kurt Cobain. Bono. Breakfist the Fucking Ninja. Luke Skywalker (what the hell) and Darth Vader. Obi-wan (again, for fuck's sake). Ginsberg. Poe. My mom and sisters. George Frye. Thom Yorke. Martin Scorsese and shitloads more too. By the way, a shitload is (in my opinion) an actual unit of measurement.

My Blog

maybe it’s because i hate change

if the only constant in life is change, then the fact that the only constant in life is change would also have to change-which means there could be no change. everything would stay the same. i don&rsq...
Posted by 4033 ADIOS on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:28:00 PST

tired, not much to say

i’m pretty tired, and don’t really have much to say today. kinda just want to fall asleep for at least 10 more years. there are so many times when i wish i could just hibernate, just get a...
Posted by 4033 ADIOS on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:55:00 PST

(a real "blog" is coming soon)

a real, written by me, pour your heart out and don’t worry about the consequences blog will be up soon-probably tomorrow (damn, i didn’t realize people wanted this--like oil i’m in h...
Posted by 4033 ADIOS on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:37:00 PST

random thoughts i jotted down while at work:

Don Zieman has one of the world’s worst, or best, last names, depending on how you look at it.   I’m pretty sure the word "asinine" was created solely for Big Brother.   I feel...
Posted by 4033 ADIOS on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:28:00 PST

bar fly

(random notes) 15 minutes before i have to work and i haven’t put anything up in a while. i sometimes wonder if anyone reads these, despite the fact that i can see the number of "views;" i can&r...
Posted by 4033 ADIOS on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:55:00 PST

Thoughts while at work right now

working is great because it provides money, skills, contacts, occupation of time and numerous other benifits. working with a total bitch however sucks. it gets so hard sometimes to take a quick walk o...
Posted by 4033 ADIOS on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:32:00 PST

sugar pill

I am twenty four years old and for the first time I have to fucking admit that I'm lonelyYou win hormonesYou win chromosomesYou win lifeOr perhaps am I just playing you,Tricking you because I'm a liar...
Posted by 4033 ADIOS on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:13:00 PST

Barack Obama

So while watching 60 Minutes today, I watched Barack Obama speak and I truly had to fight from holding tears back. I genuinely believe in the man. I realize that the idea of writing poetry and posting...
Posted by 4033 ADIOS on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:50:00 PST

this is a quick one I actually posted as a bulletin...

(again, i already posted this as a bulletin, but I still want to know that, despite the fact that there were NO weapons of mass destruction---and we knew that---and despite the fact that there was NO ...
Posted by 4033 ADIOS on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:18:00 PST

Not really a blog, but I haven’t posted one in a while

Ok, so I just read this on CNN.com; I'd like to post this to prove to everyone who gives me a hard time that I've always been right about the situation: From CNN.comCOLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- Ke...
Posted by 4033 ADIOS on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:12:00 PST